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Make directory with 'md'

flyingsohigh — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:36:36 GMT

I am trying to make some directories with spaces at the names. I used 'md' statement. However, it doesn't allow spaces and just give the first word as the directories name. Any suggestion how to do this?
Thanks.

Re: Make directory with 'md'

deleted_user — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:45:39 GMT

I think this should work...

X 'md "My long directory with lot of spaces\With one sub-directory"';

It seems that the thing is how SAS works with apostrophs and quotation marks.
Jaroslav

Re: Make directory with 'md'

andreas_lds — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:30:19 GMT

The dcreate-function supports directory names with spaces, just put the name of the new directory in quotes.

Example:

[pre]
data _null_;
newDir = dcreate("long directory name", "parent_dir");
run;
[/pre]

Re: Make directory with 'md'

flyingsohigh — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:58:30 GMT

dcreate works great. Since I have macro variables in my statement, the md still cannot work things right. Thanks a lot for your help!

Re: Make directory with 'md'

DerekAdams — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:02:53 GMT

Gidday

We use macros in our dcreate, &ExtractCopy does have spaces

data _null_;
newdir=dcreate("&PDEyyyy&PDEmm&PDEdd","&ExtractCopy");
run;

Derek